Tag: RealBasic
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libstdc++.so.5, How We Miss Thee
I have a bit of old code that I wrote in RealBasic a few years back which performs a very critical function for our business at work. This particular chunk of code has been running without incident for several years on an Ubuntu server at work with no problems. Yesterday I made the huge mistake…
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Homegrown Client / Server Data Sharing
Recently at work I had to come up with a way to have several installations of our software share application data in near-real time. I poked around a bit looking for a simple solution, but there does not appear to be such a thing. So I came up with my own. I don’t claim it’s…
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Launching RealBasic Apps in Ubuntu 8.04 on 64 Bit Hardware
For work I have recently needed to be able to compile RealBasic applications to run on Linux. The support for Linux from RB is decent, but requires the 32 bit versions of several libraries for the build apps to run. Specifically, I had to install the following extra packages to let things work: libc6-i386 ia32-libs…